Guild Wars 2

MikeyJoyce

Yeah there is a 5GB Update. Make sure you are all up to date before Friday!

Completionist

Am I the only one with little desire to play?

It is an amazing game, I just can't find the will to invest time into my characters knowing they will be deleted when the game is released:(

MikeyJoyce

I love the game SOOO much have collectors edition paid for and read every book but i am also kind of in the same boat.

I love testing and helping to make the game better but with the characters being eventually deleted and the fact that i dont want to play everything right now because i don't want to ruin it or myself makes me feel like i don't want to play that much.

Hmmmm might just do some more PVP.

delta36

I feel similar enough actually, the last BWE I enjoyed immensely because it was my first chance to play a game I had been hearing about, and waiting for, for years. I'm still looking forward to this weekend, but am less enthusiastic, after all, I don't want to "ruin" the game for myself by getting too far into the storyline on a character I want to play on release day, especially as I'll have to do it all again.

I'm thinking for the next BWE's I'll stick to trying out all the professions I haven't so far, and exploring the world, as opposed to the story.

Still going to be great though!

delta36

GW2 have posted a preview of the upcoming BWE on their site:
http://www.arena.net/blog/the-big-beta-weekend-preview

Lots of small changes being talked about, plus, everyone gets 500 free gems to use in the store.

uncle_sam_ie

Completionist wrote: »

Am I the only one with little desire to play?

It is an amazing game, I just can't find the will to invest time into my characters knowing they will be deleted when the game is released:(

Just get a feel for all the professions and do world PVP. When the game comes out you'll know what you like playing the most and can invest fully into that profession. So far, I like playing the Thief the best.

uncle_sam_ie

Here's a good video on Guild War 2 lore, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ARZWX51hYYk

bnt

I don't have the budget for the game, but I won a Beta key in a GuildMag contest last week, so I'll be diving in this weekend. I'll be running GW2 in WINE under Linux - should be fun. Must update the client this week, too.

taelor

No budget? Pay once, play forever! No subscription fee! Just a matter of saving up that initial payment.

bnt

taelor wrote: »

No budget? Pay once, play forever! No subscription fee! Just a matter of saving up that initial payment.

I've been on GW for over five years, so I know how it works, but I can't spare even €55 on anything non-essential at the moment.

taelor

bnt wrote: »

I can't spare even €55 on anything non-essential at the moment.

Fair enough. I know what that's like

jonneymendoza

delta36 wrote: »

I feel similar enough actually, the last BWE I enjoyed immensely because it was my first chance to play a game I had been hearing about, and waiting for, for years. I'm still looking forward to this weekend, but am less enthusiastic, after all, I don't want to "ruin" the game for myself by getting too far into the storyline on a character I want to play on release day, especially as I'll have to do it all again.

I'm thinking for the next BWE's I'll stick to trying out all the professions I haven't so far, and exploring the world, as opposed to the story.

Still going to be great though!

i only did one or two story quests and the rest i have been exploring and doing lots of WvWvW

VampiricPadraig

I will probably rolling a new char. Dunno what I should go for though? Any suggestions?

shootermacg

Didn't enjoy the mesmer, what with the lag i was experiencing and the graphics slowdown. The engineer was good fun indeed. The ele was...well an ele, good fun, no suprises andpacks a punch.
I hear the warrior is really bad ass.
Might take the necro or thief for a spin this weekend.

bnt

VampiricPadraig wrote: »

I will probably rolling a new char. Dunno what I should go for though? Any suggestions?

Well, if the Engineer is working, I'm going to try one of those. A Norn one, probably. My best times in GW were in the Eye of the North, so I might head straight to Gunnar's Hold and set up there.

MikeyJoyce

bnt wrote: »

Well, if the Engineer is working, I'm going to try one of those. A Norn one, probably. My best times in GW were in the Eye of the North, so I might head straight to Gunnar's Hold and set up there.

Engineer is working it always has been! Also I don't want to be the one to tell you this but there was a terrible accident.

"Gunnar's Hold, home of and named after Gunnar Poundfist, was the largest center of norn activity in the Shiverpeak Mountains until the awakening of the Elder Dragons. When Jormag forced the norn south, it had its icebrood swarm the homestead and had Gunnar's Hold crushed underneath a glacier."

The new home for the Norn is Hoelbrak.

Here is a very interesting article about how the world has shifted and changed from the awakening of the Elder Dragons.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Movement_of_the_World

Hope you have fun

MikeyJoyce

Hi all!

Beta Weekend this weekend! Wooop!

Hope you are all as excited as I am! So this weekend i hope to get as many people as possible onto Mumble! Get your friend on and your Auntie Patsy on!

I hope we can really get some good chat and loads of people onto mumble for some craic!

There are individual rooms on mumble and a general lobby for everyone! Come on and have a blast.

Some of my hopes for this weekend.

1. WvWvW with a good few people on mumble we can make our own small party to take out supply points and small towers.

2. Dungeons with everyone on mumble ( Will be good craic )

3. General socialising with everyone.


For all those that don't know mumble is a voice communication programme like Ventrilo and Teamspeak but better and cheaper to host

You can find the download here.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mumble/files/Mumble/1.2.3a/mumble-1.2.3a.msi/download

Info for the Mumble Server:

IP: mountaingaming.mdns.co
Port: 64765

*No Password*

Get everyone who is playing on and we can all communicate and have some fun!

Also currently we are playing on the Ring of Fire server but this will probably change after the Beta weekends. But go there for now if you are new.

bnt

"Gunnar's Hold, home of and named after Gunnar Poundfist, was the largest center of norn activity in the Shiverpeak Mountains until the awakening of the Elder Dragons. When Jormag forced the norn south, it had its icebrood swarm the homestead and had Gunnar's Hold crushed underneath a glacier."

Ohhh ... that's not good. Still, the Norn are nothing if not resourceful, and I look forward to seeing Hoelbrak.

(I meant the World of that name, of course - one of the new EU ones. I saw the previous post about "Desolation" being where all the "good" guilds are, and their WvW record last time was 6-0, but I don't care. What is there to "win" at this stage?)

delta36

There's been at least one more update since the one Uncle Sam posted about (I haven't been checking the client everyday). This one is about 1300 files.

On a side note about Hoelbrak, I was delighted to find, during the last BWE, that I could easily travel there and that the fang from Jormag was on display and you could attack it!

VampiricPadraig

Will probably roll a warrior this weekend. I did have a lot of fun on the last BWE with the Necromancer Charr (I chose Necro since that I was a Necro in GW1)

delta36

So uh, BWE is not supposed to launch for another hour, I managed to log in and play a character there. No sign of any other PC's though.

Edit: Scratch that, other people here.

Hawke

Downloading the update now, hope the fixed some of the optimization issues. Planning on continuing my WvWvW streak.

VampiricPadraig

\o/ (Even though there is a mis-match since ArenaNet added a load more servers since the last BWE)

VinLieger

VampiricPadraig wrote: »

\o/ (Even though there is a mis-match since ArenaNet added a load more servers since the last BWE)

Yeah Desolation hasnt had much of a challenge either, you would think they would organise it so the more populated and experienced servers got matched up with each other

Hawke

VinLieger wrote: »

Yeah Desolation hasnt had much of a challenge either, you would think they would organise it so the more populated and experienced servers got matched up with each other

If you win a set you go up a bracket and if you lose you go down one, since its a beta and only lasts 2 or 3 sets the matchmaking is useless until retail.

VinLieger

Hawke wrote: »

If you win a set you go up a bracket and if you lose you go down one, since its a beta and only lasts 2 or 3 sets the matchmaking is useless until retail.

I know how it works, what i mean is they had the data from the previous weekend and the stress test so setting up the winning/populated servers would have been pretty simple and a good way to stress test wvw

Hawke

VinLieger wrote: »

I know how it works, what i mean is they had the data from the previous weekend and the stress test so setting up the winning/populated servers would have been pretty simple and a good way to stress test wvw

There's loads of new servers added which complicates things and they only got 6 samples of how a server did assuming they were part of the first beta weekend. Hard to balance off that since you have no idea what the new servers will be like.

VinLieger

Hawke wrote: »

There's loads of new servers added which complicates things and they only got 6 samples of how a server did assuming they were part of the first beta weekend. Hard to balance off that since you have no idea what the new servers will be like.

Its not really, they have population numbers, the new servers have low population and the old ones have high ones, its simple math tbh
What do you mean 6 samples?

Hawke

VinLieger wrote: »

Its not really, they have population numbers, the new servers have low population and the old ones have high ones, its simple math tbh
What do you mean 6 samples?

Each server fought 6 different sets of WvWvW in the first beta. I agree that they should have used some of the data but ~I guess they just don't have the matchmaking working yet.

Dcully

Pretty quiet around here about this beta lads, how did it go?
Game still looking promising?